SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

11:22 AM EDT, 04/03/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Sunshine Biopharma ( SBFM ) said Thursday it has raised about $2.5 million following the close of its registered direct offering of shares and pre-funded warrants to institutional investors. The company said it will use the proceeds for general corporate purposes and working capital. Aegis Capital Corp. was the placement agent for the...

11:24 AM EDT, 04/03/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Hershey (HSY) is closing in on a deal worth around $750 million for the popcorn brand LesserEvil, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Hershey did not immediately reply to a request for comment from MT Newswires. (Market Chatter news is derived from conversations with market professionals globally....

(Reuters) - Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Donald Trump's formula for calculating those levies has a serious side: it is also hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest. The math is simple: take the U.S. goods trade deficit with a country, divide it by that country's exports to the U.S. and turn...